17Making of detention application

17 Making of detention application

17 Making of detention application

(1) Where practicable, a prosecutor must make a detention application in writing and in the approved form.

(2) A court must not decline to hear a detention application only on the basis the detention application is not made in writing.

(3) A court may make a decision on a detention application even if the application does not comply with this section.

(4) A prosecutor may, in one detention application, make a detention application in relation to more than one offence committed or alleged to have been committed by the same person.

s 17: Am 2025 (662), Sch 1[2].